Its primary objective following the March 2 touchdown inside Mare Crisium crater was to deliver 10 NASA instruments designed to gather lunar subsurface data. But the eastern edge of the moon’s near ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would bring the robotic mission to an end. However, the lander continued to ...

A second American company has landed a spacecraft on the moon in an extraordinary feat once solely the realm of government ...

Blue Ghost landed at lunar sunrise so that the solar-powered ... The sensors landed about 60 feet away, and, connected by cables to the lander, measured voltages — essentially a supersized ...

As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of ... the sun had already set on Mare Crisium, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for ...

They ride on the coattails of a gorgeous picture of a total lunar eclipse, which Blue Ghost caught Friday before concluding its mission and going dark. It's unclear when the lander took its ...

The shielding technology was tested in vacuum chambers, where it was used to remove lunar dust samples brought home by NASA's ...

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander ...